SMIL file types association

[blanche]

I've just been converted to jetAudio by the geeks on a general tech forum.
I used Real(wash my mouth out with soap) for years because it was the only app supported by MPR to stream my favourite radio show A Prairie Home Companion.
JetAudio is a much improved player on the old .ram streams - thanks so much for your free basic product.

However I can't find how to configure jetAudio 6.0 Basic to handle SMIL file types - as in this address:

http://www.prairiehome.org/play/audio.php?media=/2004/02/14_phc

My system is XPHome, patched to date, including the latest bundle of Win Media codecs.

IE6 reports the .php extension as unknown. When direct it to open the file with jetAudio, jetAudio opens and does nothing.
There is no SMIL file type in the 'advanced' list of associations.

Hope this is a fixable problem

[Jetisfy]

Well I'm not sure if IE is failing to parse and send it to jetAudio correctly or if jetAudio is just bad at it or not designed too.
However there are manual steps you can do to play that stream with jetAudio. Direct the link to open with notepad instead of IE or jetAudio. Inside the audio.php file as it is titled or smil file that it is, you will find a few links to streams. The one you want I believe is:

rtsp://a754.v5559f.c5559.g.vr.akamaistream.net/ondemand/7/754/5559
/v001/mpr.download.akamai.com/5559/phc/2004/02/14_phc.rm

If I picked the wrong one well choose another. ;)
Then copy the one wanted, then open files with jetAudio ( open file button main GUI or whatever shortcut you preferr ) and paste it in the url to open with, click open url.

These manual steps are well worth it to me, as I am a big fan of all the features jetAudio has to offer. Hope you have thanked the geeks on the general forum you visit for pointing out this excellent audio/video player to you.

Enjoy
Jetisfied User

[NeTo]

Actually it seems there is a problem with the page. Firefox also asks to save the page to disk, which is uncommon with php files.

[blanche]

Actually it seems there is a problem with the page. Firefox also asks to save the page to disk, which is uncommon with php files.

yep, another user at home here uses Firecracker and reports the same problem with all this MPR archive of .php files. As I have found with IE6. I wonder if Windows is trying to avoid buffer overflow traps by simply refusing to parse any .php - This is remembering that I am patched up to the minute. Others may not be, and therefore able to still parse the files?
Thanks for your input - always good to know others can confirm naughty behaviour. Sort of makes you feel as though you aren't all alone in a sea of tech :-)

[blanche]

Thanks very much Jetisfy for your very clearly set out solution.

I am listening to the offending stream right now and there is just no comparison with the old player. jetAudio allows me a much greater dynamic control over the stream and it seems to buffer a little better when my line (a poor old dial-up country connection) gets congested.

The geeks have got your workaround along with my thanks already ;-)

You could say I am experiencing much jetisfaction.

thanks,

Blanche

[Jetisfy]

YW, Glad to see some satisfaction. :)
NeTo is the clever one that knows what's going on. I'm just guessing my threw.:rolleyes:

Jetisfied User

[NeTo]

YW, Glad to see some satisfaction. :)
NeTo is the clever one that knows what's going on. I'm just guessing my threw.:rolleyes:

Jetisfied User

Well, actually you were the one that came with the solution ;). We're two the ones guessing solutions for problems :p